"With Jesus, nothing is broken beyond repair"

Matthew 12:20, "A bruised reed shall he not break, and a smoking flax shall he not quench..."

Tonight Pastor Anthony preached out of this text. As always, he preached an awesome message! He was talking about in the Bible days they would make musical instruments out of the reeds that grew naturally. I think reeds were the equivalent of golden rod or another wild plant that grows-it was every where. In those times, if the reed wasn't functioning properly, the shepherd or whoever had it would just break it and throw it to the side. It had little value to them, and was easy to come by. Isaiah, or as Matthew says, Esaias, prophesied of the Messiah and he said that when the Messiah came, he wasn't going to break the bruised or disfunctional reed. In types and shadows, we are the reeds and we are bruised and messed up. But Jesus isn't going to just toss us aside.

The next part of that verse says "and a smoking flax shall he not quench..." The amplified version of that says, "And a smoldering, dimly lit wick He will not quench..." He likened that to a saint of God who is struggling...they're just a smoldering wick now-not like the fire they used to be. God isn't gonna snuff you out if He can still see the little smoldering bit of smoke.

No matter how bruised, or how dimly lit you've become, if you're still trying and you're doing the best you can to be victorious, God isn't going to just toss you aside or snuff you out. There is still mercy and grace in the house of the Lord:)

YAY!!

Ok ya'll, I am SO excited!! It's been, oh let's see...almost 3 years I do believe?? 3 years since I saw my awesome uncle. He's my mom's brother and he lives in Pittsburgh. You would think with him living only about 2 1/2 hours away that we would see him more often, but we don't. The last time we saw him was when my sister graduated and he was at her ceremony and party.

Welllll....today he's coming to see us again!!! Unfortunately, his wife and twin daughters won't be with him, but we are so excited he's coming! It's been even longer since I saw my aunt Carla and the girls. I think it's been 6 years?? Yep that sounds about right. I don't know what we'll do today...probably sit around and talk, but it's gonna be so much fun!=D

On a sadder note, I am still doing so terribly with school work!! Does anyone feel like giving me a good kick to the behind? Maybe it'll get me moving. I don't know why it's so hard to catch up....I do have to say though, when my instructional supervisor told me that I'm a month behind in order to finish June 1, but that she wants us to finish then for our good, I was soooo relieved! She said it's not like if I don't finish by then I'll fail the grade, it's just better for students if they get the whole summer off. So yes, I feel more relaxed, but I'm still sluggish with catching up...*sigh*

Well now that I've informed you of my terrible habit, I must go so I can try to catch up. Til next time!

Happy Anniversary!

Well, I missed my own anniversary! Man! I don't even wanna know what it's gonna be like when I have important things like that to remember all the time!

Well, I bet you're anxiously sitting at the edge of your seat wondering just what anniversary I missed. It was the first anniversary, too!! Isn't that like the most important one until the 5 year?? Well anyways, it was the first anniversary of the day my blog and I joined and formed this relationship!!

That's right! January 8, 2010 I posted the first ever blog post for "A Day in the Life of a Talkative Teen." Since then, I have posted 84 times, approximately 7 times a month. Which is so not accurate because there were months I posted like once and then there are months when I've posted like 10 times. But if I continue to post steadily like I've start out doing this year, I should have a great big number to tell you all at the end of the year!=D

Anyways, just wanted to wish myself a happy anniversary!=) Thank you to all my faithful readers! You guys give me the extra shove to keep posting and to be faithful about it!=) Looking forward to a great year with you all, and hopefully you all will start letting me know you read *ahem* comments *ahem*

My love story

Someday, I hope to have a love story like this one. Just about every time I hear this song it makes me cry and cry. It's such a good song, but so incredibly sad at the end when...well, you can listen and find out why the ending is so sad for yourself=)


Click here to listen to "Walking her home"

What are you eating??

Well everyone, I've come to give you probably my very favorite breakfast recipe EVER!! When I tell you the ingredients, many of you will probably say, "Ewww!!!" But I'm telling you it's amazingly good!! So if you're one of those people that will take a chance with what you're eating, you won't be disappointed! For those of you who do NOT take chances with food....I'm sorry that you're missing out on this delicious little breakfast;-) Oh and one more thing! I was going to take pictures and post them but I didn't have one for breakfast this morning, and I didn't want to wait to post the recipe because it's been a few days since the last post=D

So here are the ingredients:

1 egg

1 cinnamon and raisin bagel

ketchup

mayo

one slice of cheese (probably best to use American or Velveeta (what I use)

To make the sandwich, make one egg over-easy. While the egg is cooking you should put your bagel in the toaster. After the bagel is toasted, put the mayo and ketchup on it. Usually when I make the sandwich my egg is done before the bagel so I put the slice of cheese on the egg to melt it some. After both are done, put the egg on the bagel, and your sandwich is complete!! Just a quick warning for anyone who may try this, it is VERY, I repeat VERY messy! So be prepared with a plate and some napkins...otherwise you'll have egg yolk all over your table or all over you!

Hope you enjoy!

Sincerely, your chef;-)

How to avoid being a victim

Well today I was on Yahoo and noticed one of the featured articles was called "How Thieves Guess Your Social Security." Obviously interested, I clicked on it and watched the minute-and-a-half video. It's an interesting piece of information so I figured I would post it on my blog in case it could help someone NOT be a victim of identity theft. So please, take two minutes out of your day and watch the video:)

Click HERE to watch it.

Recently I was reading Meagan Rowell's blog and she directed everyone to read an article by Bro. Marty Ballestero called "If You Were a Gentleman." I'm going to do the same and suggest everyone read it! Bro. Ballestero knows what a gentleman should be like and I'm just WAITING for him to write one about "If You Were a Lady." The Lord knows that I need as much direction on that as I can get!

Speaking of being a lady, my pastor's wife is a lady if I ever did see one!! She's also my grandmother which I stated in the last post, so I get to enjoy her leadership both ways=) I love you, Grandma!!=D

P.S. Click the names of the blog and the article;)